Writing

Updated July 2019

My high school diary entries were originally published by Future Tense Books in Portland, Oregon, when I was fifteen years old. Literary agents in New York City read the original chapbook, and two years later, an expanded version was published by HarperCollins. Dave Eggers and Jonathan Safran Foer really liked it, but I’m regularly humbled by teen readers who continue to find me and tell me how much this book means to them.

Megan McCafferty edited this excellent collection of short stories with contributions from Jacqueline Woodson, Sarah Dessen, and other favorites. “Relent/Persist” is my story, a queer romance told through e-mails full of teenage drama and longing.

I co-wrote “Simple Instructions” with my friend, Brendan Adkins. We’re proud to report that our steamy gay male romance was one reviewer’s favorite story in the anthology, and they even implored us to write an entire novel based on our characters.